OptionStrat Blog

New Look & New Options Model

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new branding for OptionStrat! At OptionStrat, we strive to make options investing easier and more accessible for everyone, regardless of experience level. Our new branding reflects this...

New Greek Visualization Features

Our options profit calculator tool is used by traders around the globe to visualize the potential profit and loss of option strategies over time. Many traders tell us it’s the first step they do before...

Auto-Updating quotes now available!

Auto-updating quotes are now available to all premium subscribers! (Free users will still receive 15 minute delayed quotes which must be manually refreshed) Currently the auto-updating quotes are only available for the options profit calculator portion of...

Options Calculator Improvements

Today we are launching a series of improvements to our options profit calculator product known as the strategy builder. These changes focus on making it easier to manage strategies throughout their lifetime. Here’s the quick...

Indices (SPX, VIX, etc) and Global Trading Hours

New index data We are expanding our platform to include data from some major stock market indices and their options: SPX: S&P 500 Index VIX: Cboe Volatility Index XSP: Mini S&P 500 Index (Similar to SPY at 1/10th...

New Premium Feature: Probability Distributions

As an addition to the premium chance of profit feature, premium users can now view an overlay of the stock’s probability distribution when using the graph view in our options profit calculator. The probability distribution...

Update: Saved Trade & Paper Trading Improvements

OptionStrat’s saved trade system has been revamped! Over the past few weeks we have added some highly requested features to give the saved trade system a makeover. Instead of being a simple list of saved...

New Feature: Historical Price Charts

We are launching an exciting new feature for OptionStrat today: Historical price charts! You can now view the past price history for any strategy by clicking the historical price button on the strategy builder screen....

Live Data Now Available

We are happy to announce that our live data plan is now available! Live data will apply to both the options profit calculator (aka strategy builder) and options optimizer tools. Stock and option quotes are...

New Feature: Custom Multi-Expiration Strategies

Since day one OptionStrat has had support for multi-expiration strategies such as calendar and diagonal spreads, and today we are launching an update to enhance the multi-expiration features. Now it is possible to add an...

OptionStrat Apps Now Available

OptionStrat is now available as an app for mobile devices! Now you can use OptionStrat on the go alongside your other mobile trading apps. All of the features available on the desktop version, including our options...

Introducing the Options Optimizer

Today we are releasing the new options optimizer tool for public testing. The options optimizer makes it easy to search through thousands of potential trades and focus on the ones that matter: the strategies with maximum return,...

OptionStrat Beta Launch

As of today OptionStrat is now available to the public! Thank you to the pre-beta testers who helped provide valuable feedback. OptionStrat is a tool for creating and visualizing option trades on U.S. stocks. It...